[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 43, Number 6 (Monday, February 12, 2007)]
[Pages 122-123]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Notice--Continuation of the National Emergency Blocking Property of 
Certain Persons Contributing to the Conflict in
Cote d'Ivoire

February 5, 2007

    On February 7, 2006, by Executive Order 13396, I declared a national 
emergency and ordered related measures blocking the property of certain 
persons contributing to the conflict in Cote d'Ivoire, pursuant to the 
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706). I 
took this action to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to 
the national security and foreign policy of the United States 
constituted by the situation in or in relation to Cote d'Ivoire, which 
has been addressed by the United Nations Security Council in Resolution 
1572 of November 15, 2004, and subsequent resolutions, and has resulted 
in the massacre of large numbers of civilians, widespread human rights 
abuses, significant political violence and unrest, and attacks against 
international peacekeeping forces leading to fatalities.
    Because the situation in or in relation to Cote d'Ivoire continues 
to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and 
foreign policy of the United States, the national emergency declared on 
February 7, 2006, and the measures adopted on that date to deal with 
that emergency, must continue in effect beyond February 7, 2007. 
Therefore, in accordance with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies 
Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year the national 
emergency declared in Executive Order 13396.

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    This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and 
transmitted to the Congress.
                                                George W. Bush
The White House,
February 5, 2007.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 12:44 p.m., February 5, 
2007]

Note: This notice was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on 
February 6, and it was published in the Federal Register on February 6.